Hawaii

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Página 6 The strains of music from that mocking, savage dance, I often heard in the
distance — even not far from the Bishop's grounds — for they are most
penetrating, monotonous and rythmical, as the steady trot of hoofs across a long
bridge, or hard, ...

Página 21 As the trees gradually perished, the lava mantle remained forming a solid cast of
the trees that had been en wrapt from the ground to the beginning of the
branches. Several of these casts are above one's head on horseback. According
to ...

Página 24 ... parsonage of the "Anglican Church Mission," a Roman Catholic Church, and a
meetinghouse; as many as three stores, a Chinese restaurant, a baker's, where
one kind of very poor bread is baked, a little post-office and a burying-ground.

Página 29 The warlike elf much wondered at the tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all
the ground." It did really seem to me as if all the spirits of earth and heaven —
good angels, elves, and fairies were awake and abroad on nights like these to
revel ...

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Página 107 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born, of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign : — 4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.

Página 114 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Página 205 - And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. ^ Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water.

Página 84 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

Página 27 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

Página 114 - THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets round, From far and near, on mead and moor, Swell out and fail, as if a door Were shut between me and the sound : Each voice four changes on the wind, That now dilate, and now decrease, Peace and goodwill...

Página 4 - In every work regard the writer's End, Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spight of trivial faults, is due. As men of breeding, sometimes men of wit, T...